Other msapplication issues

Other MS Application Issues

MSOffice Expanding Menu Feature
Window Explorer View settings
Error from search: total_word_count not found in dictionary .This is either an error or the database is old
Fixing "FrontPage Runtime Component Page" error
Q: My Word keeps losing the settings or does not seem to work.
Q: How to disable IE saving passwords where authentication is required to access web sites.
IE Settings' Problem
How to determine whether Index Server or FrontPage is performing your searches
How to use Virtual CD-ROM Control Tool
You are using a browser that is not Java-enabled
Error "Service is not running"
Thesaurus does not show synonyms
How redirect your existing web site to another web

MSOffice Expanding Menu Feature

MS Office 2000 and newer offers expanding menus feature where the most recently used commands and file menu options are the only ones to show in your menu. If you hold your cursor over the menu for a few seconds or click on the arrows at the bottom of the menu it will fully expand and show all the menu options. To show the full menu, you can set this option in FrontPage: 1) In the TOOLS menu select CUSTOMIZE>Options, check the option to "Always show full menus"

Window Explorer View settings

If you constantly have to recheck your folder view to get the "details" to show up, you the "details" view as default you can go to window explorer>Tools>Folder Options>View, click Like Current Folder (win2000) or Apply to All Folders (winXP).

Error from search: total_word_count not found in dictionary. This is either an error or the database is old

Symptom: When using the FT search component, you may receive the following error: "Error from search: total_word_count not found in dictionary. This is either an error or the database is old. No documents found. Please try again."

Resolutions: Whenever you upload files into the web, you may get this message. To fix it, run Recalculate Web.

Fixing "FrontPage Runtime Component Page" error

If you are testing a disk-based Web, you may get "FrontPage Runtime Component Page" error while submitting a form.
To resolve this issue, publish your FrontPage Web to a Web server, or test the form directly on the Web server.

Q: My Word keeps losing the settings or does not seem to work.

A: Somehow Word's normal.dot template file does not work. Use Windows' Find function to locate Normal.dot; then delete it. Once file is gone, Wood will create a new Normal.dot file. You may need to re-setup the settings.

Q: How to disable IE saving passwords where authentication is required to access web sites.

A: Open IE>tools>internet options>security>custom level>user authentication>logon, check intranet zone or anonymous logon.

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IE Settings' Problem

If the amount of disk space Internet Explorer uses for temporary Internet files are set to 0 (zero) percent, and you are unable to specify a different setting. If you try to change the settings, you may receive the following error message: "Enter a number between 0 and 1 to indicate size of disk space for..." or "There won't be enough space in the new location for the currently download content." This behavior can occur if the History, Cookies, or Temporary Internet Files folder is damaged, or if a damaged file exists in one of these folders. Resolutions: 1) If you are using Win9x, delete History, Cookies, or Temporary Internet Files from Windows folder, and then re-create them; 2) If you are using Win 2000 or XP, delete them under Documents and Settings/username/Local Settings.

How to determine whether Index Server or FrontPage is performing your searches

To determine whether Index Server or FrontPage is performing your searches, start your Web browser. Open the Web page that has the FrontPage Search Form component. View the HTML source code and look for the following line of code: b-useindexserver="x"
where x equals a 1 or 0. If x equals 0, FrontPage is performing the search; if x equals 1, Index Server is performing the search.

You are using a browser that is not Java-enabled

If you get the error "You are using a browser that is not Java-enabled", you need to download and install MS Java Virtual Machine: http://tinyurl.com/oca.

Error "Service is not running"

When you attempt to search by using a Search Form component in a Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Web, you may receive
the following error message Error "Service is not running". This behavior can occur in the following situation: You published a Web that contains a Search Form component to a Web server that is hosting Microsoft Index Server and the Index Server service is not running. FrontPage uses a Search Form component that calls the search engine of the FrontPage Server Extensions. However, if you publish your Web to a Microsoft Internet Information Server with Microsoft Index Server installed, the Index Server replaces the functionality delivered by the FrontPage component. Because the default configuration for Index Server is different from the FrontPage search functionality, you may experience unexpected behavior. To resolve this issue, start Index Server.

Thesaurus does not show any synonyms

If your Word 97 goes through the motions but does not show synonyms, it due to a BAD thesaurus *.lex file. To fix the problem, remove the files named with msth*.lex from c:\program files\common files|Microsoft Shared\proof and copy them back from CD.

How redirect your existing web site to another web

In HTML view, add the following to the Head section: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="6; URL=http://www.yourwebsite.com">

The value given to 'content' is the number of seconds before the refresh will take place; the value given to 'URL' is the page you want your visitor sent to. You may also want to include a text link to the page in case your visitor's browser does not support the 'refresh'.

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